New Releases
New Releases consists of the latest acquisitions to the VDB collections, be they contemporary works by artists, titles that are newly-preserved or edited that are now being made available to audiences, or recently released DVD Box Sets or compilations.
  HalfLifers is an ongoing collaborative project created by longtime friends and fellow media artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony M. Discenza. Embracing a gestural improvisation-based performance style and championing a rigorously low-fi...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: body, death and dying, food, future/technology, humor, media analysis, performance |
Heliocentric uses timelapse photography and astronomical tracking to plot the sun's trajectory across a series of landscapes. The entire environment seems to pan past the camera whilst the sun stays in the center of each frame, enabling...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: science, sound, technology |
Welcome to The History of the Future: A Franklin Furnace View of Performance Art. This disc set is based upon a live event that took place at the Abrons Art Center in New York City on April 27, 2007. Within this box set, you'...
Collection: New Releases, DVD Box Sets, Single Titles Tags: activism, art history, documentation, history, performance |
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2010 | 5:36:57
Curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, and originally presented by the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Radical Closure features works produced in response to situations of physical or ideological closure resulting from...
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases, DVD Box Sets Tags: experimental film, landscape, middle east, politics |
2010 | 1:29:02
This first program deals with stories of captivity. To start, Hostage: The Bachar Tapes by Walid Raad presents us with an imagined hostage presumably held in custody along with the American hostages in Lebanon during the 1980’s. Raad’s...
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases Tags: autobiography, crime or violence, diary, documentary, environment, family, jewish, landscape, media analysis, middle east, politics, sexuality, war |
2010 | 1:10:45
This program presents different approaches to looking at war, and to using images of war. My Friend Imad and the Taxi is an unfinished work from two amateur filmmakers, both passionate about film, who lived in Beirut in the eighties when...
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases Tags: european film/video, experimental film, family, future/technology, media analysis, middle east, music, photography, politics, surveillance, war |
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2010 | 58:55
Border situations have inspired writers, artists and filmmakers, particularly within the context of divisions and border control within the Middle East. Who draws the borders? What are the effects of imposing them, of imposing checkpoints? This...
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases Tags: body, eastern european, family, landscape, middle east, war |
2010 | 54:00
Named after Hatice Güleryüz’s haunting short film, with its disturbing yet iconic images, this program presents unsettling situations narrated with both considerable emotional investment and critical distance. In her work Intensive Care...
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases Tags: animation, body, eastern european, expedition/travel, history, middle east, music, performance, politics, youth/childhood |
2010 | 1:04:15
How useful is personal testimony to History? The most abstract of all the works that focus on personal narrative in this program is certainly Lisa Steele’s Birthday Suit with scars and defects, in which the artist gently caresses every...
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases Tags: architecture, body, expedition/travel, family, feminism, middle east, politics, post-colonialism |
